Huneeus paid Singer $50,000 for a score of 1380 out of 1600 on the SAT. Though the score ranked in the 96th percentile nationally, it wasn’t good enough for Huneeus, who groused to Singer on a wire-tapped call that “if you had wanted to, I mean, [my daughter’s] score could have been 1550, right?”The vintner agreed to pay Singer another $250,000 to make sure she was admitted to USC as a recruited water polo player, prosecutors say.
Agustin Huneeus, center, arrives at federal court Tuesday, May 21, 2019, in Boston, where he is scheduled to plead guilty to charges in a nationwide college admissions bribery scandal. Huneeus’ daughter was conditionally approved by a USC admissions committee in November 2018 after Donna Heinel, an administrator in the athletics department, presented her as a water polo recruit, according to charging documents filed in Huneeus’ case.
Heinel was fired by USC on March 12, the same day prosecutors unsealed an indictment charging her with racketeering conspiracy. She has pleaded not guilty.
Wow! So proud of my kids. They worked hard and got into great colleges. Sad that the ones that bribed their way in, probably regarded them as “affirmative action” entrants. This is like corporate welfare folks calling a single parent a welfare queen.